What is the not the Clissold Park website?
The not the Clissold Park website is a site dedicated to people who walk around Clissold Park, (not those adult twits who cycle through far too fast), don't attend meetings and want to praise and sometimes damn its management. If you were looking for the user group click here
If you feel you simply have to make a comment and say what you think about the park do so in the usual way. Click the buttons that look like the likely ones and get posting.
Nobody involved in this website has sought or won an election or holds any office that permits them to be accorded any respect whatsoever for the views that they hold.
Clissold Park is our park, it belongs to each and every one of us and is maintained for us by the parks department of the London Borough of Hackney. The London Borough of Hackney is an administrative area of local government covering Hackney, Shacklewell, Homerton, Clapton, and Hackney Wick and, since 1965, Stoke Newington and Shoreditch containing Hoxton, Haggerston, Woodberry Down and parts of Newington Green.
Its actions are directed and guided by a body known as Hackney Council which in common with all councils everywhere is made up of social misfits, pragmatic nest-featherers, dogmatic lickspittles, political adventurers, opinionated gits and well-meaning fools that must first seek election for the honour of serving us. This council then employs people with various levels of intelligence, training and ability to deliver services and manage our property on our behalf. Councillors seek democratic election on promises that they will oversee not only the direction of the council and the execution of its promised tasks both statutory and discretionary but also to ensure that the council follows good practice in the use of funds and seeks best-value in all its actions and expenditure.
There is also an elected Mayor
Without exception almost every single one of these councillors not only has no experience of maintaining a large open-space, company, office or brewery piss-up but is also so deluged with paperwork as to be completely unable to learn to maintain their own garden or windowbox.
For these reasons it is vital that you fight for your park.
26 June 2006
These people wanted Hackney to slide back into hung council chaos in the 4 May elections to stop us implementing plans for paving over 'parks'. They want to live in some nostalgic bygone age when councillors debated amongst themselves at meetings and 'parks' were full of grass and trees.
We need to promote everything that's best about Hackney and its friends across the pond and that's why I've invited Northrop Grumman to install a recruitment centre with an exhibition of tanks and helicopters adjacent to the new car park entrance. This will give some of Hackney's unemployed people and ASBO kids a fantastic opportunity to change their lives and become useful members of society.
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